Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture
by jcampbell1 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:45PM
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It makes perfect sense from a biological perspective. I am not aware of any transgenic methods to increase yield as that is done through breeding and hybridization. Do you know of a specific seed that has enhanced yields through a crisper like process? I am aware of accelerated mutations by irradiating seeds, though I think this is rare and I only know of red grapefruits that successfully used this technique.
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Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture
by dragonwriter on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:07PM
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> I am not aware of any transgenic methods to increase yield as that is done through breeding and hybridization. Do you know of a specific seed that has enhanced yields through a crisper like process?
Not sure that anything particularly CRISPR-like is involved (there are other transgenic techniques), but:
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-genetically-modi...
Re:Five Things Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About Agriculture
by jcampbell1 on Sunday January 01, 2023 @06:39PM
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Thanks for the article and I read the paper. I know people have been working on it for ages, but it is nice to see some promising results.
One huge problem with the article is this line:
> The plants are also 16% to 18% more efficient at using nitrogen
The paper said no such thing. These plants take up more nitrogen and increase yield.